News and Events

The State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued Official Dispatch 95/UBNV-V2 on reporting to register to attend the Homeland Spring Program 2018 in Hanoi.

A workshop on community consultation on draft law on HIV/AIDS prevention and control was organized by the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) project management board and the project of global fund for HIV/AIDS prevention and control on December 7th.

A seminar discussing solutions to improve the efficiency of the value-added tax (VAT) refund policy for tourists and stimulate the demand for Vietnam’s tourism was held in Ho Chi Minh city, on December 6th.

Xoan singing, a folk music genre in Vietnam’s northern midland province of Phu Tho, has been removed from UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Ho Chi Minh city People’s Council (ninth tenure) set a gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate of 8.3-8.5 percent for 2018 during its sixth session that took place from December 4th-7th.